# GetAITools.dev - The AI Free Tier Ledger

> Hand-verified ledger of every major AI free tier: chat assistants, LLM APIs,
> coding assistants, image, voice, music and video generation. Each entry lists
> what is free, exact limits, the catch, and when it was last checked by hand.

Last full sweep: 2026-07-02. 33 entries. Re-verified weekly.
License: CC BY 4.0 - reuse freely with a link to https://getaitools.dev
JSON version: https://getaitools.dev/free-tiers.json
Changelog of every limit change: https://getaitools.dev/changelog

## Chat assistants

### ChatGPT (chatgpt.com)
- What's free: Flagship auto model, file uploads, image generation, a small daily budget of thinking-mode messages.
- Limits: ~10 msgs / 5 h fast window, then auto-downgrade to mini model
- The catch: Limits are dynamic. Opting out of personalized ads can cut the cap to as low as ~5 msgs / 3 h.
- Sign-up: no card needed
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#chatgpt
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/chatgpt

### Claude (claude.ai)
- What's free: Claude Sonnet (current gen) on web, iOS, Android and desktop. File uploads and artifacts included.
- Limits: Daily message cap, varies with demand
- The catch: Caps shrink at peak hours. Long conversations burn the quota much faster.
- Sign-up: no card needed
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#claude
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/claude

### DeepSeek (chat.deepseek.com)
- What's free: Full flagship model including the reasoning mode, on web and mobile.
- Limits: No published caps
- The catch: Data is processed in China and chats are used for training by default.
- Sign-up: no card needed
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#deepseek
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/deepseek

### Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
- What's free: Unlimited quick AI searches with citations.
- Limits: ~5 Pro searches / day
- The catch: No Deep Research, Labs or premium model picker on the free plan.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#perplexity
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/perplexity

### Gemini (gemini.google.com)
- What's free: Gemini Flash chat, limited Pro access, image generation, 5 Deep Research uses/month, Google app integrations.
- Limits: Compute-based caps: refresh every 5 h, plus a weekly ceiling
- The catch: Limits scale with prompt complexity and chat length, so heavy use runs out sooner. Top models and higher caps need a Google AI plan.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#gemini
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/gemini

### Microsoft Copilot (copilot.microsoft.com)
- What's free: GPT-class chat with web grounding, voice, and image generation (15 fast boosts/week, slow queue after).
- Limits: Dynamic throttling at peak times; images 1024x1024 only
- The catch: Free image output is licensed for personal, non-commercial use.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#microsoft-copilot
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/microsoft-copilot

### Le Chat (Mistral) (chat.mistral.ai)
- What's free: Top Mistral models, web search, image generation, code interpreter, 40+ connectors.
- Limits: ~25 messages/day soft cap
- The catch: No Mistral Large, Flash Answers or no-telemetry mode on the free plan.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#le-chat-mistral
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/le-chat-mistral

### Grok (grok.com / x.com)
- What's free: Grok text chat on grok.com and X for logged-in users.
- Limits: ~10 messages / 2 h
- The catch: Needs an X account 7+ days old with a verified phone number. Image generation is paid-only.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#grok
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/grok

## LLM APIs for developers

### Gemini API (ai.google.dev)
- What's free: Real ongoing free tier on most Gemini models via AI Studio, including multimodal.
- Limits: Per model, e.g. Flash ~1,500 req/day, Pro ~50 req/day. Resets midnight PT
- The catch: Enabling billing on the project kills the free tier instantly. Free-tier data may be used for training.
- Sign-up: no card needed
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#gemini-api
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/gemini-api

### Groq (groq.com)
- What's free: OpenAI-compatible API. Llama 3.3 70B and others at ~300 tokens/sec.
- Limits: ~30 req/min, 1,000 req/day, 100K tokens/day (llama-3.3-70b)
- The catch: Free limits were cut hard in 2026 (daily requests dropped from 14,400 to 1,000 on most models).
- Sign-up: no card needed
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#groq
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/groq

### Cerebras (cerebras.ai)
- What's free: Fastest inference around (~2,000 tokens/sec) on Llama-family models.
- Limits: ~1M tokens/day
- The catch: Small model selection compared to other providers.
- Sign-up: no card needed
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#cerebras
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/cerebras

### Mistral API (console.mistral.ai)
- What's free: Experiment tier: roughly 1B tokens/month across Mistral models. One of the most generous quotas anywhere.
- Limits: ~1B tokens/month, ~50K tokens/min
- The catch: You must opt in to letting Mistral train on your data to get the free tier.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#mistral-api
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/mistral-api

### OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
- What's free: Dozens of ":free" models from many labs behind one OpenAI-compatible key.
- Limits: 200 req/day across free models
- The catch: A one-time $10 credit purchase lifts the cap to 1,000 req/day. Free models may log or train on prompts and can vanish without notice.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#openrouter
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/openrouter

### GitHub Models (github.com/marketplace/models)
- What's free: Playground and API access to GPT, Llama and more with any GitHub account.
- Limits: High-tier models 50 req/day (10/min), mini models 150 req/day; 8K tokens in / 4K out per request
- The catch: Prototyping only: per-request token caps are tight and concurrency is 2.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#github-models
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/github-models

### Cohere (cohere.com)
- What's free: Trial key for Command models, embeddings and rerank. Never expires, no card needed.
- Limits: 1,000 calls/month across all endpoints, 20 req/min
- The catch: Evaluation only; commercial use requires a paid production key.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#cohere
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/cohere

### Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- What's free: Small monthly inference credit usable across hosted open models.
- Limits: ~$0.10/month in credits on free accounts
- The catch: The free credit is symbolic. Real usage needs PRO ($9/mo, $2 in credits) or your own hardware.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#hugging-face
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/hugging-face

### OpenAI / Anthropic APIs (platform.openai.com / anthropic.com)
- What's free: OpenAI: a daily free-token allowance if you opt in to sharing your API data (up to ~1M tokens/day on frontier models, ~10M/day on mini). Anthropic: a one-time $5 trial credit.
- Limits: OpenAI: daily, opt-in only; Anthropic: one-time
- The catch: OpenAI's free tokens cost you your data. Anthropic's $5 needs SMS verification and is a trial, not a tier. The old OpenAI $5 welcome credit is gone.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#openai-anthropic-apis
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/openai-anthropic-apis

## Coding assistants

### GitHub Copilot Free (github.com/features/copilot)
- What's free: Completions plus chat and agent mode in VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim and the CLI.
- Limits: 2,000 completions/mo, 50 chat or agent requests/mo
- The catch: Auto model selection only. Agent mode eats the 50-request budget very fast.
- Sign-up: no card needed
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#github-copilot-free
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/github-copilot-free

### Gemini CLI (geminicli.com)
- What's free: Full terminal coding agent with a personal Google account.
- Limits: 1,000 model requests/day, 60/min
- The catch: You don't pick the model: the CLI decides which Gemini model serves each request. Big agentic tasks burn the quota fast.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#gemini-cli
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/gemini-cli

### Windsurf Free (windsurf.com)
- What's free: Full editor with unlimited Tab autocomplete.
- Limits: ~25 agent (Cascade) actions/month
- The catch: Pricing was overhauled in March 2026 (credits replaced by quotas); premium models stay gated to paid plans.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#windsurf-free
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/windsurf-free

### Cursor Hobby (cursor.com)
- What's free: Limited agent requests and tab completions to try the editor.
- Limits: Small monthly cap, exact numbers unpublished
- The catch: Cursor doesn't publish concrete Hobby-plan numbers. It's a demo, not a daily driver; power features need Pro.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#cursor-hobby
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/cursor-hobby

### Cline / Continue / Aider (open source)
- What's free: The tools themselves, forever. Open source coding agents for VS Code and terminal.
- Limits: None. Bring your own model
- The catch: You supply the model. Pair with the free APIs above (Gemini, Groq, Cerebras) for a genuine $0 coding stack.
- Last verified: always free
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#cline-continue-aider
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/cline-continue-aider

## Image generation

### Bing Image Creator (bing.com/create)
- What's free: GPT-image generation, 4 variations per prompt. Unlimited slow-queue after boosts run out.
- Limits: 15 fast boosts/week (~60 fast images)
- The catch: 1024x1024 only, no other sizes. Output licensed personal, non-commercial by default.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#bing-image-creator
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/bing-image-creator

### Ideogram (ideogram.ai)
- What's free: Daily credits, no watermark, best-in-class text rendering inside images. Commercial use explicitly allowed.
- Limits: 10 credits/day, slow queue
- The catch: Free generations are public in the community gallery.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#ideogram
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/ideogram

### Leonardo AI (leonardo.ai)
- What's free: Daily token allowance across models, roughly 15 to 35 standard images per day.
- Limits: 150 tokens/day
- The catch: Free generations are public by default.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#leonardo-ai
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/leonardo-ai

### Google Flow (ex ImageFX / Whisk) (labs.google)
- What's free: Imagen image generation and limited Veo video with a Google account.
- Limits: Monthly credit allowance
- The catch: ImageFX and Whisk were shut down in April 2026 and folded into Flow. Output is watermarked (SynthID).
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#google-flow-ex-imagefx-whisk
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/google-flow-ex-imagefx-whisk

### Stable Diffusion / Flux (local) (open weights)
- What's free: Unlimited private generation on your own machine. Commercial use OK for most model licenses.
- Limits: None. Your hardware is the limit
- The catch: Needs a GPU (8GB+ VRAM for comfort) and some setup patience. Check each model's license.
- Last verified: always free
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#stable-diffusion-flux-local
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/stable-diffusion-flux-local

## Voice and music

### ElevenLabs (elevenlabs.io)
- What's free: Top-tier text-to-speech, about 10 minutes of audio per month.
- Limits: 10,000 credits/mo
- The catch: No commercial use on free; attribution required in anything public.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#elevenlabs
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/elevenlabs

### Suno (suno.com)
- What's free: Full-song music generation, about 10 songs per day on the current model.
- Limits: 50 credits/day
- The catch: No commercial use, no stem separation, shared (slower) queue.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#suno
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/suno

### Whisper (local) (open source)
- What's free: Unlimited speech-to-text transcription on your own machine, 90+ languages.
- Limits: None. Your hardware is the limit
- The catch: Large models want a decent GPU; small ones run fine on CPU.
- Last verified: always free
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#whisper-local
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/whisper-local

## Video generation

### Kling (klingai.com)
- What's free: Daily credit allowance for short clips.
- Limits: 66 credits/day, ~5 seconds of standard video
- The catch: Slow queue on free; watermark on output.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#kling
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/kling

### Luma Dream Machine (lumalabs.ai)
- What's free: Small daily credit pool in the Dream Machine app.
- Limits: Roughly one short 720p clip per day, no audio
- The catch: Permanent watermark, non-commercial only, and unused daily credits don't roll over.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#luma-dream-machine
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/luma-dream-machine

### Runway (runwayml.com)
- What's free: One-time credit grant to try Gen models.
- Limits: 125 one-time credits (~25 seconds of video)
- The catch: Not a recurring free tier: once spent, it's gone. Watermarked.
- Last verified: 2026-07-02
- Details: https://getaitools.dev/#runway
- Change history: https://getaitools.dev/service/runway